Everything We Know About the Delta Plane Crash at Toronto Pearson Airport
A plane arriving at Toronto Pearson International Airport crashed and flipped on its back on Family Day, Feb. 17. The incident involving Delta Air Linesâ Endeavor Flight 4819 from Minneapolis occurred just after 2 p.m. EST as the aircraft was landing at Torontoâs airport.
Hereâs what we know about the crash up to this point. Who was on board and who was injured? All 76 passengers and four crew members were able to escape after the plane overturned, according to Greater Toronto Airports Authority CEO Deborah Flint. Twenty-two of the people onboard the flight were Canadian.
The majority of passengers emerged from the wreckage unscathed, but Delta Airlines said 21 individuals were injured and taken to hospital. Nineteen of the passengers had been released as of this morning, the airline said in a Feb. 18 statement.
Pearson Airport CEO Deborah Flint told reporters during a Feb. 18 afternoon press conference that the two patients who remain in hospital have non-life threatening injuries, but refrained from giving further details.
âItâs really important to recognize how grateful we are that there was no loss of life or life threatening injuries in yesterdayâs accident,â she said.
Delta also has not released details on the conditions of the patients.
âOur most pressing priority remains taking care of all customers and Endeavor crew members who were involved,â Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in the statement. âWe are grateful for all the first responders and medical teams who have been caring for them.â Was weather a factor? Pearson Airport recorded an accumulation of 50 centimetres of snow over the long weekend after two consecutive winter storms hit Toronto.
âFrom last Thursday to Sunday, Pearson saw extreme conditions,â Flint said, adding that the amount of snow received was a rare occurence.
âIn fact, it is more snow within that time window than we received in all of last winter.â
The weather not only caused flight delays over the course of the weekend but left airport employees with a massive clean up.
A social media post by the airport early Feb. 17 said the airfield team âcontinued their work throughout the night to clear critical areas so planes can safely arrive and depart.â
GTAA fire chief Todd Aitken told reporters at a Feb. 17 media briefing that the runway conditions were dry and there were no crosswinds at the time of the landing, although passengers onboard reported gusty winds and snow blown over the runway as the plane was descending.
An audio recording from the air traffic control tower at Pearson indicates the pilots were warned about a potential air flow âbumpâ in the glide path caused by an aircraft in front of them when they received clearance to land just after 2 p.m. EST.
The airportâs tower crew measured the wind at 23 knots gusting to 33 knots, according to a social media post. Wind gusts of 33 knots translate to 61 kilometres per hour.
Flint was questioned about the condition of the runway and if wind gusts played a role in the planeâs crash, but she declined to comment while the investigation is underway.
âThis would not be a time for us to have a theory or to speculate on what caused the crash,â she told reporters. What happened? Video footage of the landing shows the plane hitting the runway hard and flames shooting into the air before the aircraft skidded onto its side and then overturned. Photos of the upended aircraft show one wing sheared off and the landing gear pointing skyward.
Passengers, who were buckled into their seats, were left dangling upside down before taking off their seat belts to drop down to the ceiling of the plane. Video footage shows flight crew and emergency responders quickly ushering passengers off of the plane out of both of the aircraftâs doors.
âThe crew of Delta flight 4819 heroically led passengers to safety evacuating a jet that had overturned on the runway, on landing amidst smoke and fire,â Flint said. âI thank each and every one of these heroes, every flight attendant and crew member on Delta flight 4819.â
Flight crews and airport emergency workers and responders âmounted a textbook response,â reaching the site within minutes of the crash, she added. They were also on-hand to aid in the evacuation and transport of the injured to hospital. Who is investigating? The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is leading the investigation, assisted by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, Deltaâs incident response team, and Mitsubishi, the makers of the aircraft.
Seven members of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada arrived at the airport on Feb.17 to begin the investigation and 13 more investigators arrived on-site today, Flint said. FAA investigators are also at the scene of the crash today.
âWe do expect that the investigators on site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours,â Flint said, noting that more information on the cause of the crash will be released as the investigation unfolds. Are there ongoing delays? The probe into the Feb. 17 crash has resulted in the closure of two runways. The damaged aircraft will not be moved from the runway until investigators are finished on the scene, Flint said.
Once that portion of the probe is complete, the GTAA will do its inspections âand then return that runway into service,â she added.
Until that time, travellers can expect flight delays and cancellations. Pearson is urging passengers to check their flight status before arriving at the airport.
The Canadian Press contributed to this report.
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